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From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2 net-next v4 0/5] bridge: json support for fdb
 and vlan show
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 22:00:55 +0200
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Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 08:10:47PM CEST, stephen@networkplumber.org wrote:
>On Wed, 22 Jun 2016 16:53:44 +0200
>Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> wrote:
>
>> Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 03:45:50PM CEST, roopa@cumulusnetworks.com wrote:
>> >From: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com>
>> >
>> >This patch series adds json support for a few bridge show commands.
>> >We plan to follow up with json support for additional commands soon.  
>> 
>> I'm just curious, what is you use case for this? Apps can use rtnetlink
>> socket directly.
>
>Try using netlink in perl or python, it is quite difficult.

pyroute2? Quite easy...